Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-07-30
MINNESOTA A.

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The six-year-old son Of John O'Mallay, OF
Tracy, fell into a well and was drowned.
Helen M. Delano, who r}sestiy went 10
Hastings, has been s%djudged insane.
A railroad company has been organized al
Duluth to penetrate the rich iron regions.
Chinch bugs have taken the cities OF Wi
mona and st. Peter. The air is full OF them
Notwithstanding much dsmage hiss beer
done 10 the wheat crop, the yield will be fair
The rebuilding OF the East school house =
Rochester has begun and will be inished b,
fall.
A party OF surveyors are at work neaI
Walnut Grove en- the Three Falls railva,
line.
George w. Boncher, of Lake City, ageC
sixty1ive, was sun struck ON Wednesday ant
died.
Mrs. w. w. Barnes living west OF Re,
Wing, was fatally injured by an angry bull
on wednesday morning.
Eairmount's militia company took n,
champion banner at the -nca,n pUent CO tht
Second regiment, NJ. N. q.
DR.. William Sandy, OF st. Cloud, was sur.
struck, fell from his buggy, receiving seri
Gus injury, and was found In the road ipseu.
sible.
Two deputies from the postoAlc. department
have been inspecting Rechostertomake plans.
II possible, for the introduction OF a free de.
livery system.
The Duluth and Iron Range Railway corr
pany has put surveyors on the line 10 locate
the proposed extension Of the road into the
iron district.
Fred Tank, an old settler Of Welch, was
killed in Douglas Sunday while going TO
church in New Trier, being thrown from his
buggy violently to the ground.
Edward Calder was killed in a st. Paul box
factory by the elevator descending upon him.
A young lady on her way from Scotland was
to marry him on her arrival.
Duluth gamblers have been officially mott.
fed to quit the city, under penalty Of prose
cation. There are fifty or seventy-tlye OF
them to whom the notice applies.
Philander Ball, a hermit CT Wsdena, was
found dead in his shanty on Wednesday.
Ills agony must have been terrible as the
"NSA was WIN Iiota us itSS anu DlDk.
Says the st. Paul Globe: With over 300, 600
people, why shouldn't the twin cities have a
park system inferior to none. Let the park
commissioners answer the co~Gnundrum.
owing to some misunderstanding with the
contractors, the architect on the new court
mouse at Mankato has ordered the work 'sus-
pended. One story Of the building is nearly
completed.
The deaths In saltwater have averaged one
daily since July |, and during the first four
DAYS OF last week seven deaths are reported.
Inc mortality is unprecedented, and occur
mainly among children.
Charles Sellers, one OF the commissioners OF
81. Louis county, was dangerously and PROB
ally fatally injured by the bursting of the
saw in a mill at Tower Wednesday morning.
sellers was formerly In numbering and Iog.
Chippewa Falls, Wis.
Mrs. l.. Rhentan, OF Winona, was thrown
rom q carriage while out driving near tAe
.orner OF Fourth and Cedar streets Monday
..Iternoon, and received a severe cut upon the
The accident was caused by a dog
INNING out and Tightening the horse, which
tirted to run away.
Nathaniel Sterrett, a pioneer settler OF
lount Pleasant, Wabasha county, died re.
entity OF spinal meningitis, aged seventy.four {
ears. He leaves two sons, w. r. and J. A..
Mount Pleasant, and a daughter, whoIiyes ,
Denver, Col. He was an uncle OF Frank 8
the well known grain dealer OF Mer. .
am Park. =
Alexander White, the young man who had b
rec ribs broken by a premature discharge of :
c cannon while firing a Fourth OF july sun v
'e salute at Rochester, has died Of his In. u
rice, A younger brother, who had been a q
valid for s long time, died the same day. -
spirltuai!st had treated the boys and the i
st and regular medical aid came too late. 5
10
VIM. Peterson, a Sgede, about twenty.four ~
lrs Of 'ge, vas instantly killed In st. Paul as
the l2th 81 attempting to cross the rail- e
10 track In advance OF an approaching
In. His head was cut off, and both legs
re severed from his body. 1t is known that
had been drinking durip" the after.
IN, aud vas probably intoxicated at the "
e OF the accident.
he case against Mrs. ]. +. 5otnson and
daughter Belle, Of Winons, for keeping a
'.ouse, was Finished Tuesday "
ming, Ju'.ge Allen reading them = severe u
ure ahf. giving them a day or two to get
OF t ,wn. Belle, who is = young girl OF
ee' !, seemed very much affected and made
nc In court, crying and almost going into
,tsr;cs. Her brother, who lives at Pitts
lie, Wis, has promised to take care of her M
/ keep her out OF mischief. O,
Thomas q. Blair, OF Gault, Ont, commit
.u'cide Wednesday night at Ten Mile dt
He arrived at Fergus Falls Monday b,
l was accompanied by lis brother, X. G.
ir, OF Nlnot, Dakota. He had been Ill for
ne time and had been recommended TO go Il
Ten. Mile lake 20 recuperate. Tuesday at nj
,ner he was missing. Col. Mcfarland and O,
.ssrs. McAfee and Southland, ST. Paul gen w
men. started to look for him. They found n;
body ia shallow water with the throat cut. :,
idepce shows that he vainly tried to drown n
nself and then cut his throat. Blair was sc
out thirty years old. 81
A Anoka Wednesday, Judge Nelson rem b.
red an important decision In = case involv- 81
2 questions Identical with those which were q